Pacific Medical Student Association (PMSA); a report from a RANZCP sponsored inaugural medical student camp (Letter)
Author(s)
Beckmann, K Martin
Ram, Bijend
Hinds, Meredith
Parsonage, Brian
Alexander, Agnew
Ma'u, Etuini
Gleadow, Ros
Arnold, Joyce
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2018
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Dear Sir, In 2017, Fiji hosted the first ever Southern Hemisphere Pacific Medical Student Association (PMSA) summer camp.1 This 5-day event aimed to deepen students’ knowledge. Topics at this camp were essential to Pacific Health, chosen specifically as potentially neglected at medical schools. Presentations were on climate change, natural disasters, environmental health in the Pacific, jungle and primitive medicine, emergency medicine and mental health.Dear Sir, In 2017, Fiji hosted the first ever Southern Hemisphere Pacific Medical Student Association (PMSA) summer camp.1 This 5-day event aimed to deepen students’ knowledge. Topics at this camp were essential to Pacific Health, chosen specifically as potentially neglected at medical schools. Presentations were on climate change, natural disasters, environmental health in the Pacific, jungle and primitive medicine, emergency medicine and mental health.
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Journal Title
Australasian Psychiatry
Volume
26
Issue
6
Subject
Biomedical and clinical sciences
Psychology
Cognitive and computational psychology
Science & Technology
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Psychiatry